Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1887-06-30

and becoming citizens af this country
But just now very few Of shai kind are
coming. while ship load ailsr ship load Of
the scum Of Europe are hcing dumped upon
our shores.
They are not paupsrs, the immigrant
agents say Ono. 10 eTade the laws, they
have money enough put into their pockets
on the other side 70 prevent their being
classed as paupers. IL Is cheaper and
causes much les trouble TO foreign nations
to put S pounds in criminals pocket. be
sides paying his fare, and ship him over
here, than TO prosecute him, convict him
AID keep him in prison there.
Ii Is q fact that this is done in England
and other European countries, not exactly
under the authority Of the Governments
but the governments permit the friends of
such criminals 10 do this thing, which is
jus; a. bad if not worse than If it were done
openly. Thus thousands of worthless de-
bauched, vagabonds are landed at our
ports nearly every day. Among them are
socialists, anarchists and communists. The
strife they are stirring up viii be felt some
day.
There are men i9.thjs City to-day under
the surveillance-ofsslse police. who, while
afraid TO proclaim their sentiments openly,
are anarchists and socialists. They would
not hesitate To blow up the City Hall if It
were not for fear of the safety of their own
cowardly necks. They would wrest from
property holders and divide among them
selves all the property if they could and
cut honest mems threats to do it.
Right in the presence of the police Com
missioners to-day, one Ernest Bauer,
German cabinet maker, said he was a
socialist. On the 18th OF May last the
police under instructions from the Health
Department visited Bauer's house, among
Others, for sanitary purposes. Bauer be-
came incensed and called upon the Mar
shall for an explanation. He got it. But
before leaving he wanted TO discuss social
ism. The marshal dismissed him and said
he thought he belonged TO a class which
needed watching.
Not satisfied Bauer reported his griev-
ances 10 the Federation Of Labor and COM
mittee was appointed To wait on the
commissioners. That committee accom-
panied by Bauer called to-day. President
Schryver told them that it was the duty of
the police TO know the sanitary condition
of every house, that they had inspected his
during his absence, and ne had no COM
plant 10 make. Bauer then branched off on
the fact of his being watched. The mar
shal was called in and said he told Bauer
that he needed watching and he thought
50 yet. President Schryver told him that
the principles of socialism were repugnant
10 the institutions of this country and every
man known To cherish them would he held
under police surveillance. Bauer then said
he was not an anarchist but that he was
socialist, and one member of the committee,
on leaving the board room, turned and
said TO the president in tone of derision.
You are a daisy.
Now here is one case of socialism right
here in Maryland and there are hundreds
of Others. The plea of not being anarchists
is blind. The difference between anar-
chiSm and socialism as entertained by these
people is just about the same rs that be-
tween foot and twelve inches.
heard this man Bauer on one occasion
at meeting of the Federation. which was
sent TO report, say that if he was in SYM
patty with the condemned anarchists of
Chicago, ii was his own business. On
another occasion he slurred at member
who introduced resolutions condemning the
Coercion Acts Of the English Parliament,
because he did not also introduce resolu-
tons condemning the "isms and tyranny
in this country"
say if this country does not suit them
leave it, and let us stop all such from
coming here.
In the Criminal Court to-day Judge
Duffy sentenced Charles NJ. Owens, John
Braudau and Isaiah Walters, judges, and
J. b. Sanner and VIM. J. Byrne, clerks of
the municipal election for the second pre-.
cinct Of the First ward, last fall, TO two
years in Jail. They were convicted of
conspiracy To defraud in receiving and re-
turning illegal votes. James ii. Hamlin
one of the judges of End precinct OF the
Eighteenth ward, convicted Of the same
offence, was sentenced to two years in Jail
and to pay fine of S1OO0.-Henry Heint-
Zerling judge Of the same precinct forfeited
his bail and did not appear for sentence.
Judges and Clerks of one the precincts of
the Tenth ward are now on trial.
That there was some crooked business
somewhere in last falls council election is
a plain as daylight, but who did il is a
question. The defense was that i; was
A""a NV reneaters. This may be 50. \
Judge cannot be supposed 20 know every
man in his precinct. With a watchman
ON the outside, and copy of the poll books
it is an easy matter TO know who has not
voted and just before the close Of the polls
repeaters could be run in and the Judge
would not know the difference. | know a
great many people in this town but there
are numbers in my own precinct tina, /
don't know and venture 10 say that there
is not man in Baltimore who knows
every-man in his voting precinct
II is rather a dangerous thing 10 I've an
election judge here now. Yet at a regular
election you must serve if called upon or
I've punished, and if you serve and some